Introduction -- PART I: THE SOCIETY, THE MUSIC, THE CRITIC -- 1. Critiquing the critics -- 2. The Blues People of Leroi Jones -- 3. Black music: Cold War "secret weapon" -- PART II: BLACK NATIONALISM AND THE REVOLUTION IN MUSIC -- 4. Revolution in black music: origin and directions -- 5. The new black radicalism -- 6. The "jazz club": an adventure in cockroach capitalism -- 7. John Coltrane and the black music revolution -- 8. John Coltrane and Albert Ayler -- 9. A different drummer: John Coltrane and the revolution in rock -- PART III: THE ANATOMY OF THE COLTRANE QUARTET -- 10. Elvin Jones: polyrhythmic innovator -- 11. McCoy Tyner: an interview -- 12. John Coltrane: an interview -- PART IV: MALCOLM X -- 13. Black revolution and black music: the career of Malcolm X -- APPENDIX: A selected discography of the recorded works of John Coltrane -- Notes